Eco-Inquiry

Day 4: Dead Leaf Storyboards- Performance Assessment

Objectives

Students work in groups to create displays that show what happens to a dead leaf over time.

Lesson Overview

Students will be able to: know how the appearance of a dead leaf changes during decomposition, understand that the primary cause of decomposition is decomposers that use dead material as food, know that the matter a leaf is made of does not vanish during decomposition, it all can be accounted for event though it is in new forms and places, communicate their knowledge of decomposition in a way that engages and teaches others.